I'm doing some work in net-physical, and I noticed that it contains:
if [ "$1" = "xx0" ]; then
#
# For some unknown historical reason the xx0
# ifname is ignored.
#
shift
continue
fi
This results in the net-physical script to ignore any file named
/etc/hostname.xx0. According to google, this was a SunOS 4.x.x hack to allow
someone to set the hostname of a standalone system. Such files are clearly no
longer used this way by Solaris. I propose that we remove this particular
interface name restriction, perhaps as part of UV. Any opinions on this?
-Seb